Word: alienating
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...Transvaal Republic into the British sphere. Jan Smuts tasted bitter ashes. None of his original ties to Britain & Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British colonials. Now he declaimed against naked imperialism, shed his British citizenship, trekked north, became a burgher and a leader of the Transvaal Republic...
...hamper postwar German attempts to recapture Latin American drug markets. But last week Sterling's stocky, blue-eyed. 46-year-old President James Hill jr. proudly announced that his company was about to deal the Nazis an even shrewder clout. At the express request of the U.S. Alien Property Custodian (and at a guesstimated cost of more than $50,000) Sterling is applying to six Latin American countries, starting with Ecuador" and Costa Rica, for permission to buy up some 120 of I., G. Farben's most venerable trademarks - including the famed Bayer aspirin cross.* Thereafter, the trademarks...
...Bayer cross has belonged to Sterling since its predecessor company bought the Bayer assets from the Alien Property Custodian during World War I. But in Latin America the name and trademark, like those of many another famed pharmaceutical (e.g., salvarsan, luminal, atabrine) have always been German-owned...
...Browder, Russian-born wife of U.S. Communist Leader Earl Browder (see cut), was able to "dissipate the doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate...
...return. If the jury should find that he intended to bed with her, conviction on two charges (two trips) of violating the Mann Act might bring him a maximum sentence of $10,000 fine and ten years in prison, presumably to be followed by deportation as an undesirable alien...